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Language Skills

R data.table
R tidyverse
R markdown
R shiny
Python
Bash
SQL
AWS

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Last updated on 2025-02-13.

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Selin Kubilay

As a software developer I use my background in data science to build tools to help people explore, understand, and work with their data better. I have made visualizations viewed by hundreds of thousands of people1, sped up query times for 25 terabytes of data by an average of 4,800 times2, and built packages for R3 that let you do magic4.

Education

PhD., Geography

Berlin

Humboldt University in Berlin

2026 - 2020

N/A

MSc.,Environmental Sciences

Istanbul

Bogazici University

2018 - 2016

N/A

Selected Industry Experience

Principal Software Engineer

Posit

Remote

Current - 2024

  • Working on all things up and down the stack of the Positron data science IDE.

Senior Software Engineer

Posit

Remote

2024 - 2023

  • Creator and lead developer of the ShinyUiEditor low-code tool for building Shiny applications with a drag-and-drop interface

Software Engineer

Posit

Remote

2023 - 2020

  • Helping make programming web applications with R easier and more beautiful on the Shiny team
  • Helped create and release Shiny for Python. A ground-up rewrite of the Shiny app development platform for Python.

Data Journalist - Graphics Department

New York Times

New York, New York

2016

  • Reporter with the graphics desk covering topics in science, politics, and sport.
  • Work primarily done in R, Javascript, and Adobe Illustrator.

Selected Data Science Writing

The Great Student Migration5

The New York Times

N/A

2016

  • Most shared and discussed article from the New York Times for August 2016.

Wildfires are Getting Worse, The New York Times6

The New York Times

N/A

2016

  • GIS analysis and modeling of fire patterns and trends
  • Data in collaboration with NASA and USGS

Using AWK and R to Parse 25tb7

LiveFreeOrDichotomize.com

N/A

2019

  • Story of parsing large amounts of genomics data.
  • Provided advice for dealing with data much larger than disk.
  • Reached top of HackerNews multiple times